[INDOLOGY] Fwd: Pippalagrama of the Nikumbha king?

[Nagaraj Paturi]

Not related to the book under question, just regarding Kashmir connection
here
<https://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=Neelakantha%20(Hindu%20astrologer)>
:

*Neelakantha*, the 16th century author of Tajika Neelakanthi and Prasna
Tantra, and the son of Anantadeva, hailed from Kashmir; his brother,
Ramchandra, wrote Muhurta Chintamani, the famous treatise on Electional
Astrology.[1] Neelakantha was the court astrologer of the Moghul Emperor,
Jalaluddin Akbar. According to Deepak Kapoor, Neelakantha was born in the
year 1556[2] The Tajika system of prognostication depends on the
Varshaphala,[3]Neelakantha wrote his famous book on Varshaphala, Tajika
Neelakanthi, in the year 1587.[4] However, B V Raman in the introduction to
Prasna Tantra states that in the last part of his Varshatantra (of Tajika
Neelakanthi), Neelakantha records that he composed this book on the eighth
day of the bright half of Aswija of Saka year 1509 which means 1567 AD.
There is also evidence that he hailed from Vidarbha and that he was 43 or
44 years old when he wrote this book.[5]

*References*

   1. Islamic Culture Vol.26. p. 57.
   2. Astronomy and mathematical astrology. p. 143.
   3. A textbook on Varshaphala.
   4. Hart De Fouw. Light on Life. Lotus Press. p. 19.
   5. B.V.Raman. Prasna Tantra (Horary astrology). Raman Publications.
   p. ix.


On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 12:01 AM, Martin Gansten via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Thanks also to Nagaraj Paturi and Michael Witzel. Additional information
> like the personal name Tuka and the reference to a Nikumbha king may indeed
> help to eliminate at least some of the many possible Pippalagrāmas. The
> general spread of Tājika astrology (starting from Gujarat) may give a clue
> as well. I have not so far seen any reference to authors from Orissa or
> Kashmir, though there are a few (later) works from Bengal.
>
> Martin
>
>
> Den 2017-06-09 kl. 17:40, skrev Nagaraj Paturi:
>
> consisted of two villages Bilvagrama and Pippalagrama in. Nidhivasa
> Khampanaka. These places can be identified as. Belpandhari and
> Belpimpalgaon at a ..
>
> here
> <https://www.google.co.in/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjIi-i_i7HUAhWMO48KHd8fCmsQFggvMAM&url=http%3A%2F%2Fshodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in%2Fbitstream%2F10603%2F100249%2F13%2F13_chapter%25209.pdf&usg=AFQjCNFw_gx0FxriZlgy7iN-GFDzyNgbsg&sig2=QYyMg-ZS5z3P1bXz4lLFww>
>
> http://www.jstor.org/stable/44147473?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
>
> mentions pippalagrama
>
> Jan Gonda's book
>
> here
> <https://books.google.co.in/books?id=r8kUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA25&lpg=PA25&dq=pippalagrama&source=bl&ots=FnciH0qTJ3&sig=SBdxe8od_SNVslfekegrXOrEvn4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjIi-i_i7HUAhWMO48KHd8fCmsQ6AEIJzAA#v=onepage&q=pippalagrama&f=false>
>
> has pippalagrama
>
> On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 8:03 PM, Madhav Deshpande via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
>> FYI
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Witzel, Michael <witzel at fas.harvard.edu>
>> Date: Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 10:31 AM
>> Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] Pippalagrama of the Nikumbha king?
>> To: Madhav Deshpande <mmdesh at umich.edu>
>> Cc: "Witzel, Michael" <witzel at fas.harvard.edu>
>>
>>
>> Dear Madhav,
>>
>> unless the Maharastrian “Saint” Tuka(Ram) is a clue, Pippala-grama-
>> derived names also occur in Orissa (Pipli when Paippaladin Atharvavedins
>> indeed exist: I talk to them in 1983) and in U.P.
>>
>> Similarly for Kumbha/Nikumbha that occur, if memory serves, in the
>> Nilamata Purana of Kashmir and in the Devi Mahatmya: All clearly
>> mythological…(next to Piśācas etc,)
>> Is the change from bh > b a Maharastrian trait? I doubt. But typical for
>> Dardic languages, including Kashmiri.
>>
>> Just my 2 cents.
>> Michael
>>
>
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-- 
Nagaraj Paturi

Hyderabad, Telangana, INDIA.


BoS, MIT School of Vedic Sciences, Pune, Maharashtra

BoS, Chinmaya Vishwavidyapeeth, Veliyanad, Kerala

Former Senior Professor of Cultural Studies

FLAME School of Communication and FLAME School of  Liberal Education,

(Pune, Maharashtra, INDIA )


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